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Participation in the Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik
[17.09.2026]Hans-Jörg Schmerer and Hendrik Sonnabend participated in the Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association) in Innsbruck, where they presented their current research projects.
In the study entitled “Energy for Growth: Satellite Synthetic Control Evidence from Indonesia,” Hans-Jörg Schmerer, together with Ursula Müller and Klaus Wulf-Andresen, examines the growth effects of a World Bank project aimed at improving energy access in parts of Indonesia. The discussion paper is available here: https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/igas/docs/cesa_wp_19.pdf
In the project “Did Germany’s 1997 Anti-Marital Rape Law Improve Women’s Well-Being?”, Hendrik Sonnabend, together with Laura Gil and Matthias Westphal, also from FernUniversität in Hagen, examines the causal effect of Germany’s 1997 law criminalizing marital rape on the well-being of married women.
